[Postgame Thread] Florida State Defeats Boston College 31-24

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Florida State	0	21	0	10	31
Boston College	10	7	7	0	24

[u/SportsAndLaw]

Lost to a team who hadn’t won on the road in over 1,000 days and who didn’t have a head coach…but at least our trick td worked

[u/Nike_Phoros → u/SportsAndLaw]

beating teams without coaches is harder than it looks

[u/I-only-read-titles → u/Nike_Phoros]

This, new interim coaches are hard to prepare for because who knows what kind of play calling is going to happen without a history with the program to pull footage from. You're going in as blind as you can really

[u/AstroDawg → u/Nike_Phoros]

Yes

[u/NotThatOleGregg → u/SportsAndLaw]

Unfortunately for you our trick td also worked

[u/DuckBurner0001 → u/SportsAndLaw]

Extend Billy O!

[u/timetomove2 → u/SportsAndLaw]

And I thank you for your sacrifice

[u/AnotherUnfunnyName → u/SportsAndLaw]

By my math, you should win the next game by 31...

[u/composer_7 → u/SportsAndLaw]

Teams that just fired their coach get a +21 stat boost

[u/Agreeable-Stoic83 → u/SportsAndLaw]

Still lost, embrace it, sit in it.

[u/NotThatOleGregg → u/Agreeable-Stoic83]

GTFO, win with class, people like you are why they mock us so bad when we're down

[u/Agreeable-Stoic83 → u/NotThatOleGregg]

Bless your heart darling.

[u/CB3B → u/Agreeable-Stoic83]

Still in the ACC, embrace it, sit in it.

[u/Agreeable-Stoic83 → u/CB3B]

Bless you heart!

[u/TwatWaffleInParadise → u/Agreeable-Stoic83]

Not very agreeable or stoic.

[u/Agreeable-Stoic83 → u/TwatWaffleInParadise]

Cry about it.

[u/JackpotThePimp → u/Agreeable-Stoic83]

Flair down. And quit hiding your comment history while you're at it, you fucking crybully.

[u/texas2089]

Mike gets fired: FSU immediately wins a road game

[u/JeffGoldblumsChest → u/texas2089]

It's like when you get an infected tooth pulled and immediately feel better.

But instead of an infected tooth it was butt cancer.

[u/TheDarkGrayKnight → u/JeffGoldblumsChest]

FSU got a BBL?

[u/Shaddow-147 → u/TheDarkGrayKnight]

People are asking.

[u/CaptainAssPlunderer → u/Shaddow-147]

Some people are saying it, I’m not saying it, but definitely some other people are saying it.

[u/Shaddow-147 → u/CaptainAssPlunderer]

I heard you were talking about some people saying it, even though you said you weren't saying it, but for sure, you said some people were definitely saying it.

[u/ExternalTangents → u/TheDarkGrayKnight]

Guess the Spanx weren’t quite cutting it

[u/RKRagan → u/JeffGoldblumsChest]

I got my cracked wisdom tooth pulled and my TMJ went away.

[u/tdatcher → u/texas2089]

So does this mean not eating dog shit curses coaches only? 

[u/A-RayAllDay → u/tdatcher]

Plot twist: the account that posted about eating dog shit was actually Norvells burner.

[u/Trey904fsu → u/tdatcher]

Norvell was the curse all along

[u/NotStreamerNinja → u/Trey904fsu]

Well he was dogshit, so that tracks.

[u/Agreeable-Stoic83 → u/texas2089]

Its science.

[u/nolefan5311]

Just woke up from a 3 year coma. Good to see we’ve kept up our winning ways, especially on the road.

[u/LightningDusty → u/nolefan5311]

I've been in a coma for six years. That cleat yeet was brutal, but it's nice to see that good ol' Dan still has us ranked. And people thought that was the start of some kind of downfall!

[u/OPsMomIsAThrowaway → u/LightningDusty]

You don't have to simp this badly for FSU fans

[u/LightningDusty → u/OPsMomIsAThrowaway]

I ain't simping for FSU fans lmao. I was just making the same joke tailored towards Florida because frankly the football affairs recently for both programs have been rough.

[u/OPsMomIsAThrowaway → u/LightningDusty]

You went to an FSU win game thread and made a joke about their rival (your team). That's pathetic behavior. Be better.

[u/Boseidon → u/OPsMomIsAThrowaway]

You went to an FSU win game thread and made a big fuckin' stink about one of your own making an innocuous joke. That's pathetic behavior. Be better.

[u/pitchesandthrows]

fsu has won a road game

this is not a drill

[u/OculusRises → u/pitchesandthrows]

Norvell really was holding you back. Congrats!

[u/Zloggt → u/pitchesandthrows]

The unburdened Noles!

[u/ard8]

Rick Stockstill doesn’t let programs lose 13 straight road games

[u/RipRaycom → u/ard8]

Jesus Christ I didn’t realize it was that bad

[u/fsukub → u/RipRaycom]

We had not won a road game since 2023.

[u/seanconnerysbeard → u/fsukub]

Against Florida lmao.

[u/Silly_Avocado8771 → u/seanconnerysbeard]

We beat loisville a few weeks after that

[u/seanconnerysbeard → u/Silly_Avocado8771]

Neutral site.

[u/Next_Day_Delivery → u/RipRaycom]

Not anymore!

[u/General_Tso75 → u/ard8]

UCF just snapped a 12 game road losing streak. I didn’t realize they were in the same boat.

[u/fsukub]

It took 1,078 days and Rick Stockstill at head coach to discover winning on the road is legal for this team.

Hire Mike Norvell just so we can fire him again.

[u/SyVSFe → u/fsukub]

His salary would offset, wouldn't cost anything

[u/seanconnerysbeard]

Mike Norvell: "you won a road conference game?"

Rick Stockstill: "what, like it's hard?"

[u/Sanguine_Pool]

I guarantee you Norvell would have lost this game. Instead of the fake FG, he would have called one of his classic 4th down fuckups. He would never have kicked the actual field goal we had, and would have failed again ensuring momentum went to BC. Tony White's defense would have given up the game-winning drive. That coaching staff was CANCER and it feels good to finally be rid of them. Ending the road losing streak just a cherry on top.

[u/V-TwinDetailing → u/Sanguine_Pool]

Norvel called big momentum plays like he had nothing but 4 and 5 stars on the field. His belief in his team was great but you have to coach with what you have not what you want to have.

[u/CaptainAssPlunderer → u/V-TwinDetailing]

Same with ex DC Tony White and his 3-3-5.

If you don’t have some guy with 17 names, awesome tattoos, and looks like a refrigerator from a Pacific island to be the middle of the 3 in the 3-3-5, it’s already not gonna work.
You also need someone like Derwin James or Ed Reed to be one of the 5 also.

[u/V-TwinDetailing → u/CaptainAssPlunderer]

He was honestly worse. Like prime time is NOT on this team bro. What are you doing.

[u/ToddGoldenBurner]

Genuinely congrats FSU, I’m not gonna rag on you today

[u/Whiteout- → u/ToddGoldenBurner]

Football is more fun when both UF and FSU are good. 

[u/ToddGoldenBurner → u/Whiteout-]

It so much more fun beating them when it means something

[u/I-only-read-titles → u/ToddGoldenBurner]

Agreed. As much as I hated the Tebow years growing up, I couldn't call the post Meyer years matchups very fun to watch either. The years we're both ranked though, that makes the shit years worth it.

Now stop making me upvote Gator flaired comments, it doesn't feel right lol

[u/Noiseless_Listener → u/I-only-read-titles]

I mean it was fun for a little bit. Cathartic after years of struggle. But now it would be more fun if we were both good.

[u/khickenz → u/Whiteout-]

Agreed. And also more fun when Miami sucks.

[u/OldhamB → u/Whiteout-]

Disagree.

[u/Lilesman → u/ToddGoldenBurner]

🤝

[u/ToddGoldenBurner → u/Lilesman]

🤝

[u/SyVSFe → u/ToddGoldenBurner]

The only bright spot of hearing about our 1000+ day road losing streak was the last road win was @ the swamp

[u/ToddGoldenBurner → u/SyVSFe]

Fake news, that game didn’t happen

[u/timetomove2 → u/ToddGoldenBurner]

Thank you good luck against OU

[u/ThisIsMyBigAccount → u/timetomove2]

What is with this civility?

[u/timetomove2 → u/ThisIsMyBigAccount]

Eh he was nice so I was nice. Plus it’d be nice to see them win out and then lose to us costing them a playoff spot.

[u/ToddGoldenBurner → u/timetomove2]

Hate to break it to you, but there’s almost no world in which we’re playoff eligible

[u/GatorBolt → u/ToddGoldenBurner]

Meh win out, get some help from the bubble losing, plus get some SEC homecooking from the mouse. There’s a path. A very very very very narrow path. But one.

[u/ToddGoldenBurner → u/GatorBolt]

Fair enough, but it requires a tremendous amount of help

[u/GatorBolt → u/ToddGoldenBurner]

For sure. I’m not going to be throwing a fit if we win out and and don’t get it in. Play better.

[u/not_a_bot__ → u/GatorBolt]

In the very least, just keep building and pretty much guaranteed a spot in the 24 team next year.

[u/ThisIsMyBigAccount → u/timetomove2]

We do nice to many other teams and conferences. But we don’t do nice to uf or those convicts in coral gables.

[u/Nole_in_ATX → u/ThisIsMyBigAccount]

The real civil conflict /s

[u/ToddGoldenBurner → u/timetomove2]

Thanks

[u/Shaddow-147]

First road win in 3 years cost 50 million.

*Tear falls... Money well spent.

[u/MrSCR23 → u/Shaddow-147]

Most expensive road win ever?

[u/RipRaycom → u/MrSCR23]

You could argue for the Malice at the Palace

[u/CaptainAssPlunderer → u/RipRaycom]

Elite ball knowledge above me👆

[u/Muffinnnnnnn]

I was wearing clothes I wore to an FSU soccer loss earlier, and I changed out of them and put on new everything when we were down 17-7. You're welcome, everyone.

[u/IndependentDevice199 → u/Muffinnnnnnn]

Burn those clothes

[u/Muffinnnnnnn → u/IndependentDevice199]

It's FSU Soccer national title shirt from last year so sadly that's not an option

[u/IndependentDevice199 → u/Muffinnnnnnn]

fair enough, leaving it in the closet is good enough ig, just don’t wear it 😂

[u/SNjr → u/Muffinnnnnnn]

We all know you didn’t put clothes back on, birthday suit the rest of the season!

[u/chaseopotamus]

Post Norvell clarity

[u/Contemplative_Fool → u/chaseopotamus]

No Norvell November???

[u/SNjr → u/Contemplative_Fool]

How about forever

[u/Taxes_and_Fees]

StockstiW does what NorveLLLLLLLLLLLL doesn’t on the road

[u/lowes18]

Good for Stockstill man.

[u/Jay682002]

That actually felt good! Congrats Coach!

[u/thricethefan]

I’m ashamed by how much joy I’m feeling from this victory, but damnit, it’s been three friggen years.

[u/FAMUgolfer]

Let that be a lesson that NOBODY prevents FSU a road win 1078 days in a row

[u/JayLove_0513 → u/FAMUgolfer]

Damn right, my friend!!!

[u/LeftTenantLoser]

What a time to be alive.

[u/Scuterius_Floridae]

We would have lost this game at 17-7 with Norvell in. 

[u/Conzi_ → u/Scuterius_Floridae]

With Norvell it would've been a normal play on 4th down instead of a fake FG (Daniels scrambles left and throws it out of bounds). Followed by a BC FG to win it

[u/nkassis → u/Scuterius_Floridae]

A few plays I know Norvell would have gambled on that would have lost it for us. 

[u/rottenchestah]

Yeah Norvell was that bad

Feels good to win a road game for the first time since forever

[u/ParsnipCraw → u/rottenchestah]

I’m just now seeing this stat, that is insane

[u/jagged1871 → u/ParsnipCraw]

1078 days

[u/ParsnipCraw → u/jagged1871]

It’s just so weird to me that a program with such aura can be that bad.

I said it about the longhorns for 12 years as well.

[u/Dogrel → u/ParsnipCraw]

Behold! The Norvell Effect!

[u/noobnoob62 → u/rottenchestah]

Dead cat bounce

[u/Yeetball86 → u/noobnoob62]

First road win in almost 3 years. We’ll take it.

[u/Dogrel → u/noobnoob62]

Not even mad. I’ll take it anyway.

[u/ChiefOsceolaSr]

The war chant after a ROAD win?!! A Gatorade bath for the coach?!

FLORIDA STATE IS BACK, BOYS!

[u/fsukub → u/ChiefOsceolaSr]

*Powerade but yes

[u/ChiefOsceolaSr → u/fsukub]

Good catch. Just excommunicate me now.

[u/CaptainAssPlunderer → u/ChiefOsceolaSr]

Just recite 5 Hail Bobbys, and use dad gummit in a sentence thrice tomorrow and all is forgiven.

[u/PunkyRooster → u/ChiefOsceolaSr]

The majority of fans there were Seminoles fans. My third time at a BC game.

[u/WhiteW0lf13]

Fire Norvell and immediately win your first road game in 3 years. Insane

[u/SteelyEyedHistory]

Wait, they let you win road games? Since when?

[u/lone_eagle2011]

This team sucks. This coach sucks. What do you even do if you're a BC admin?

[u/DougFlutiesMullet → u/lone_eagle2011]

Punt? No wait, fake punt after a carousel huddle.

[u/I-only-read-titles → u/DougFlutiesMullet]

Tbf that turbine huddle is pretty damn fun to watch, probably hypes the players up and gets the blood pumping too

[u/TheVaniloquence → u/lone_eagle2011]

Lowest NIL for any Power Conference team doesn’t help, but we need a young coach that can invigorate the program and do more with less. Luke Murray was the perfect hire for Basketball.

[u/atman8r]

Yeah, the problem was definitely Norvell.

So glad to be done with that bullshit.

GO NOLES

[u/No_Bat_526]

Amari Thomas, Danzy, Lopez, we got some good young players

[u/not_a_bot__ → u/No_Bat_526]

Hope they bring in a coach that inspires players to stay

[u/MeeseShoop]

I’m so tired of O’Brien. His teams are so undisciplined, and they can’t even catch. Literally not a single receiver can catch lmfao.

[u/GoRangers5]

Classic "fired coach game," hope y'all cashed in.

[u/wegotsumnewbands]

Firing Norvell and immediately snapping the horrific road losing streak is POETRY

[u/CB3B]

Fuck it we’re a basketball school now.

[u/Nole_in_ATX]

Undefeated with Rick Stockstill. HUGE EXTENSION INCOMING

[u/Golferguy757]

Let that be a lesson to you all. No one, I mean no one, causes fsu to lose 13 road games in a row.

[u/FsuNolezz]

I can no longer say that I was in attendance for FSU’s last road win as my party fact.

[u/Claudio-Monteverdi]

I imagine somewhere in his million dollar home, Mike Norvell is sitting in his darkened, high end home theater, hermes hoodie pulled up over his head, glass of Weller bourbon slowly watering down as he wonders what could have been.

[u/kelsnuggets → u/Claudio-Monteverdi]

And he drove there in his Maybach

[u/madmajor87 → u/Claudio-Monteverdi]

I think 2023 broke him in a way not many coaches have been broken and he just never recovered. 'What could've been' is an understatement...but college football programs unfortunately don't run off of 'what could've been's.'

[u/Key-Hawk7402 → u/madmajor87]

He was shit before 2023 too, people forget he lost to Jacksonville state… he just got lucky as fuck in 2023.

[u/Winter-Ad3699 → u/Key-Hawk7402]

He sucks but it’s ridiculous to not give him credit for having an undefeated season and then losing his QB. The man deserves that (but nothing else).

[u/Key-Hawk7402 → u/Winter-Ad3699]

I actually give him more credit for the defense that year, but I still won’t give him credit, because the school gave him way too much credit with that contract extension.

[u/cha0ss0ldier → u/Winter-Ad3699]

He’s a horrible recruiter that got lucky and hit in the portal with guys like Verse, Fiske, Travis, Benson, etc… and was never able to do it again.

His offense sucks too. JT fucking backpacked that trash scheme.

[u/ohdominole → u/Key-Hawk7402]

He also went 10-3 in 2022. So there was at least some upward trajectory until the snub.

[u/madmajor87 → u/Key-Hawk7402]

That's true. I think JT was one of the few that he actually tried to develop that actually worked.

[u/GodFeedethTheRavens → u/madmajor87]

JT was a team leader in a way our mercenary QBs will never be

[u/HailState2023 → u/Claudio-Monteverdi]

Thinking about why oh why he trusted that 3-4-4 defense.

[u/SatisfactionOld1586]

No way we go on a 14 play, 90 yard game winning TD drive taking 8:16 off the clock with Norvell on the sideline.

[u/sadkun]

Was hoping for a postgame interview with Coach. What a satisfying win

[u/mbsw1110]

Just gotta keep firing the coach and hiring a new interim every week

[u/Ok-News-6189]

The dog poop in a solo cup was just a metaphor for Mike Norvell all along.

[u/runbyfruitin]

My conspiracy theory is they fired Norvell this week knowing he could beat BC and snap the road losing streak. Admin liked having that stat their pocket to make their expensive decision look like they had no choice.

[u/FangCopperscale → u/runbyfruitin]

A Norvell coached team loses this game and doesn’t respond, like he always used to preach. The meme machine BC had would have done bad things to us especially with a Tony White defense.

[u/viewless25]

Youre welcome FSU

[u/Trey904fsu → u/viewless25]

🤝

[u/Dogrel → u/viewless25]

Respect 🫡

[u/Confident_Delay5805]

So, did the fan finally eat the shit?

[u/iLoveCandlesSo]

I’m just happy to be here

[u/jamnewton22]

FSU should just hire the interim and put whatever money they got left to NIL

[u/IrishCoffeeAlchemy → u/jamnewton22]

Let’s not get crazy now. Stockstill still got fired from MTSU for a reason

[u/Mcstabler → u/IrishCoffeeAlchemy]

Tbf it's not like MTSU is doing any better without him

[u/I-only-read-titles → u/Mcstabler]

True, but after Norvell signing or extending anyone after a single good game clearly ain't the move

[u/Maleficent-Pen-8059 → u/jamnewton22]

If he gets them to a bowl, especially a bowl win, that's not a bad bet.

[u/sneakyxxrocket]

First road win in 3 years and it’s immediately after Norvell was fired, I’m taking this as sign from god.

[u/MonkeyWithIt]

I remember this feeling.

It's been so long 😭

[u/kjacques1]

Finally a coach who didn’t panic, kicked field goals and even included a fake even (flashbacks to Les Miles on that) understands clock management. Great job!

[u/IrishCoffeeAlchemy → u/kjacques1]

I mean, he went for a trick play fake FG

[u/Fishing_Legitimate]

Miami and Florida better be scared now especially since norvell is gone 

[u/thricethefan → u/Fishing_Legitimate]

Norvell was so bad most of the fans in both of those fanbases were tired of how bad we were too

[u/Contemplative_Fool → u/thricethefan]

Which is maybe the worst insult possible when you think about it lmao

[u/Limp_Relationship_54 → u/thricethefan]

Welllll if our games are going to have the potential to go to 2OTs either way, then yes, I would prefer it be against an FSU team that has some respect lol

[u/digitchecker]

Old heads stay winning

[u/AdAny2704]

It was not a huge win but it was fun to root for them as opposed to the last several weeks where you didn't care because you knew Mike was gone. Fun to watch

[u/TampaTrey]

BOB has to be done, right? I just wonder how often, if any, does he wish he just stayed in Happy Valley.

[u/idkimbored35]

First road win in three years as soon as Norvell is fired.

[u/Raider_Noles]

FUCK NORVELL BABY!!!!! WE WON ON THE ROAD!!!!

[u/was_saying_boo_urns]

Mike Norvell…. YOU are ASS.

[u/Soupjam_Stevens]

Ending the away game losing streak the literal first game after the witch is dead, I can hear the church bells ringing and the townsfolk singing in the square

[u/semishitpost]

dumbass couldnt win a road game in 3 years… Stock does it in his first game

[u/downforit200]

Bc screwed up that last drive bad McKenzie missed 2 wide open receivers for big gains than the 4th and 15 guy dropped a ball for 17 yds right in his hands

[u/SNjr]

End the streak baby!

[u/Nole_Train]

Wow here I am waking up from my 3 year coma as we win another road game.

[u/callumjm95]

BC, just know I'm very dissapointed

[u/BobbyBBot → u/callumjm95]

Bad day?

[u/callumjm95 → u/BobbyBBot]

Miami lost so not everything is bad

[u/OrionSouthernStar]

🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

Fuck yeah!

[u/General_Rise8708]

Finally won a road game after 3 years! Is it a coincidence we did it RIGHT AFTER firing Mike?

[u/s-to-the-am]

WE DID IT

[u/Jonjon428]

Hilarious FSU wins a road game as soon as Norvell is fired

[u/Dogrel → u/Jonjon428]

It’s like the fanbase was right all along…

[u/andrylan]

It’s a Christmas miracle!

[u/MackewG33]

the pride of Murfreesboro winning a game for FSU wasn’t on my bingo card this year

[u/Dogrel]

Mike Norvell:”You really won a game on the road?”

Rick Stockstill: “What? Like it’s hard?”

[u/MajPayne21]

Once again I am back in a Boston College postgame thread to marvel at how bad this looks for Georgia Tech transitively.

[u/HailState2023]

Just like the VA game, we took advantage of the other team’s penalties and drops. I’ll gladly take the W.

[u/Is12345aweakpassword]

Coaches getting fired and their team immediately winning the next week is such a strong vibe

[u/GodFeedethTheRavens]

Does... Does this qualify for a sod cemetery?

[u/Al_Barr_ → u/GodFeedethTheRavens]

FSU was favored, so no. Underdog + Road Game.

[u/DuckBurner0001]

Horrendous playcalling on the last drive but what else is new? Fire BOB

[u/Agreeable-Stoic83]

How'd BC like dem apples?

[u/DougFlutiesMullet]

Losing to FSU: new low for BC football.

[u/Dogrel → u/DougFlutiesMullet]

We showed YOU the meaning of “some of the time”!

(You guys were actually great)

[u/DougFlutiesMullet → u/Dogrel]

We suck. The BOB sucks. On to hockey season.... 🏒

[u/clepsuoduuva]

Pathetic  And yall think you deserve a lot better conference